Benchmarking Productivity -- Pursuing Profitable Pressrooms

On the other side of the spectrum, the median amount of planned waste for a two-color, longer-run job (more than 10,000 impressions) was just 1.5 percent and the median amount of unexpected spoilage was a mere 0.6 percent.

The median planned waste figures of productivity leaders (firms in the top 25 percent of productivity) were just one-third of the median planned waste figures for the industry as a whole. The differences in planned waste figures were most dramatic for two-color jobs, where the average productivity leader only encountered one-fourth the planned waste that other printers experienced.